{"id":6872,"date":"2026-03-18T12:07:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T12:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/6872\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T12:07:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T12:07:13","slug":"brussels-prepares-to-rewrite-europes-chemical-safety-laws-behind-closed-doors-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/6872\/","title":{"rendered":"Brussels prepares to rewrite Europe\u2019s chemical safety laws behind closed doors \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cGiven the significant uncertainties it could spell for the chemicals industry \u2013 it appears a full REACH revision is off the table for the Commission,\u201d said Julian Schenten, a senior law and policy adviser at NGO ClientEarth. \u201cAnd it\u2019s clear to us that ploughing ahead with a full revision creates a significant risk of REACH being dismantled, given how political the file has become.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Testing the parliamentary waters<\/p>\n<p>EU environment chief Jessika Roswall and industry chief St\u00e9phane S\u00e9journ\u00e9 met with the Socialists and Democrats group, the European People&#8217;s Party, and the European Conservatives and Reformists group during a March plenary in Strasbourg, their offices confirmed. The duo also met with the Greens and liberal Renew group in early February.<\/p>\n<p>Italian MEP Pietro Fiocchi of the right-wing ECR told POLITICO that he was \u201cvery explicit\u201d in his opposition to reopening REACH during his meeting with the commissioners.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/GettyImages-2149275085-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8128457\"  \/>Italian Member of the European Parliament Pietro Fiocchi is pictured in Milan on April 17, 2024. | Alessandro Bremec\/NurPhoto via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The same goes for the center-right EPP. German MEP Dennis Radtke told POLITICO in February that the debate over REACH \u201cis getting very emotional\u201d and admitted it is \u201cbest &#8230; not to touch\u201d REACH.<\/p>\n<p>Chemicals lobby group Cefic has also been very vocal in insisting that the legislation not be reopened. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe commissioners are testing the possibility of only doing comitology (changing annexes) as requested by Cefic,\u201d said one person close to the talks in late January.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a press conference on Tuesday, Commissioner Roswall said the Commission was still considering a full legislative overhaul of REACH, but added that from the beginning it was \u201calso looking at what they can do from within the regulation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She did not comment on whether Commission is considering comitology, adding that the work is \u201cstill in progress both between me, St\u00e9phane S\u00e9journ\u00e9 but also with others.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cGiven the significant uncertainties it could spell for the chemicals industry \u2013 it appears a full REACH revision&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6873,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[18,1401,80,496,319,175,4972,1937,3594,4973,1144,85,940,714,4974,2253],"class_list":{"0":"post-6872","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brussels","8":"tag-brussels","9":"tag-chemicals","10":"tag-competitiveness","11":"tag-elections","12":"tag-environment","13":"tag-industry","14":"tag-jessika-roswall","15":"tag-meps","16":"tag-ngos","17":"tag-pietro-fiocchi","18":"tag-reach","19":"tag-regulation","20":"tag-rights","21":"tag-safety","22":"tag-spectrum","23":"tag-stephane-sejourne"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116250099380312772","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}